I'm still having some trouble getting my head around what Acrobat 9 is (not) doing in terms of color management. Hopefully someone can either confirm that I'm not crazy, or show me what I'm doing wrong (or what simple thing I'm missing):
Open a PDF that I know is tagged with an ICC profile.
Open Output Preview.
If Simulation Profile is set to the same profile then the CMYK values are correct.
If Simulation Profile is set to anything else the CMYK numbers are different. I would expect the appearance to be different, not the numbers. This makes no sense to me... it should be showing me how these CMYK values would output to different devices...
Also, I can't find a way to determine what the embedded profile is. (In this case I knew it was Web SWOP, since I intentionally created it that way, but what if I received a mystery PDF?) When I go to Document Properties it's listed as Tagged PDF: No, even though I know for certain that it does contain an embedded profile.
Output Preview always defaults to the last-use profile, even if the PDF contains an embedded profile. I would think that by default it would go to the embedded profile, and only use the last-used setting (or the default that is set up in preferences) if there was no embedded profile.
Seems like none of this jives with how color management works in every other Adobe app, or any other color-managed app for that matter. Am I just being dumb? (Be honest, I can take it!)